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Mountain West commissioner: College athletics won't return until campuses reopen

LARAMIE — Craig Thompson may have best summed up the current state of college athletics with a single phrase.

Yet even during a time when college sports have few answers to a number of questions that continue to mount amid the coronavirus pandemic, there’s one answer that was easy for the Mountain West’s commissioner to provide.

During a two-part, in-house interview with the Mountain West Network this week, Thompson said there won’t be any sort of athletics activity at the league’s member schools until college campuses are in full operation again. Campuses nationwide have been closed in response to the coronavirus outbreak with many schools moving classes online for the remainder of the spring semester, including the University of Wyoming, one of the MW’s 12 member institutions.